<TITLE>16. Par 152-163</TITLE>L-152   Now, He must have grayed up a little, or something. He was sitting there, kind of a middle-age-looking man. And He... She said, "Why, it's not customary." See, there was a--a segregation among them. They had no dealings with each other. Said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans favors like that."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking with!"

L-153 See, oh, there it is! If we only knew, oh, when we read this, Who we're talking with, see. When you're praying, if you... Jesus said, "When thou prayest, believe that you receive what you ask for." See?

L-154 "If you only knew Who it was you were talking with, you would ask Me for water, and I would bring you water that you don't get from this well."

L-155   And the--the conversation went on a little while. She said, "Well, our father..." See, she being a Samaritan, yet said, "Our father, Jacob, dug this well. And he drank from it, and his children, and water the cattle, and so forth." But He said... "Why, you say, 'worship in Jerusalem,' and--and others, 'worship in this mountain,' and so forth."

L-156 He said, "We... Jews, salvation is of the Jews. We know what we worship. But," said, "hear Me. The time is coming, and now is, when the Father seeks the true worshipers, will be worshiping in Truth and in Spirit." See, Spirit and in Truth!

L-157   And their conversation went on for a--a little while. What was He doing? Now you'll almost have to take my Word for this. See, I think He was trying to find where her trouble was, what was on her mind. Now, remember, the Father had sent Him up there, "I have need to go by Samaria." Now He said... And that's Saint John 4.

L-158 Now in Saint John 5:19, when He had healed the man at the gate called Beautiful, we know He... No, I beg your pardon, He was at the pool of Bethesda. He healed this man, and was questioned why He didn't heal all the rest of them.

L-159   Now, that man. There was people laying there who were lame, halt, withered, blind. And here He come walking through there, walking through this pool, and He went to a man, that, I don't know what he had. He might have had TB, prostate trouble, something. He was retarded, he had had it for thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. He--he could--he could walk, he'd go down.

L-160 But notice, He come right through that pool of people, where they was all there, multitudes, thousands of them, as they lay at the sheep gate, "watching for the moving of the water." God has always had a way for Divine healing, for the people. And so the one stepping in first would have had enough faith, it taken the virtue from the water, he was healed.

L-161   But notice, this Man Jesus come through there, which was the very God of the creation, and He came through the gate, and mingled among the people, just think, having compassion. Do you believe He had compassion? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-162 Now just stop just a moment and think of this. There is a lady with a baby with a waterhead maybe this big around, passed right by. And here was a man that was blind, "Somebody have mercy on me and put me in the pool." The Bible said they were lame, blind, halt, withered. Some poor man laying there, that probably his arms wasn't that big around. Or, a little mother with a bunch of children at home, and a compassionate Jesus passed right by her. That strange? And, yet, full of compassion. But that's the Bible. Anyone... See, now watch. We don't know what compassion means.

L-163   Notice Him. He found a man laying on a pallet, that could walk, and He said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Why that one? See, why that one? Now watch and He'll tell you. Jesus knew this man had been there in this time, you see, all these years. He healed him, told him take up his bed and go home. And he did. They found him packing his bed, and found Jesus and brought Him before the court.


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